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Dick Dale

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I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do.


— Dick Dale


#cause #i #rockabilly #rocking #supposed

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.


— Dick Dale


#everything #horn #i #i can #instrument

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.


— Dick Dale


#go #i #julliard #musician

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.


— Dick Dale


#give #give me #grew #had #helpless

I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.


— Dick Dale


#became #father #fender #gave #guru

I told them if were going to do it were going to do it right, I'm not leaving 'til it's done. My wife, child and I slept in the studio. We cut these raw.


— Dick Dale


#cut #done #going #i #leaving

I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.


— Dick Dale


#i #jumped #maniac #mean #off

I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.


— Dick Dale


#explaining #i #put #sheet #songs

I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.


— Dick Dale


#build #clock #gonna #how #i

I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.


— Dick Dale


#constantly #directly #front #i #influenced






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Surf rock's national popularity was somewhat brief as the British Invasion began to overtake the American charts in 1964. Though he continued performing live Dale was soon set back by rectal cancer. Peppermint Man / Surf Beat (Capitol 1962)
Secret Surfin Spot / Surfin' and Swingin' (Capitol 1963)
The Wedge / Night Rider (Capitol 1963)
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Dick Dale (born Richard Anthony Monsour on May 4 1937) is a Lebanese American surf rock guitarist known as The King of the Surf Guitar. He worked closely with Fender to produce custom made amplifiers including the first-ever 100-watt guitar amplifier. He pioneered the surf music style drawing on Eastern musical scales and experimenting with reverberation.

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